A court has ruled that a migrant sex predator who terrorized multiple women in London after being granted asylum in the UK will be deported back to Nigeria after almost a decade of legal battles. The migrant who remains anonymous due to the immigration courts' protection of his identity, was granted asylum after being convicted of three attempted rapes and kidnapping with intent to commit a sexual offence in 2009. The court ruling effectively allows the Home Office to deport the man, despite his mental health issues and concerns that he may commit further crimes in Nigeria.
A migrant sex predator who attacked lone women avoided deportation for almost a decade through impermissibly speculative human rights judgments about what could happen to him back home, a court has found.
The man, 40, who came to Britain illegally, is finally being deported after lengthy legal wrangles dating back to 2017. The hiatus continued despite a mental health tribunal concluding the paranoid schizophrenic still posed a serious danger to the public after an incident with a knife three years ago.
The Home Office successfully overturned the most recent rulings allowing the man, named only as OSB, to stay on the grounds that if he is deported he may forget his medication, commit further offences and end up in prison in his homeland. Court of Appeal judge Mr Justice Bean said of the most recent previous ruling, by a first-tier immigration tribunal judge and backed by an upper tier panel of judges, that it was impermissibly speculative and not a sequence of events for which the UK can sensibly be held responsible.
The Nigerian national, granted anonymity by the immigration courts and known only as OSB, had committed attempted rapes in the London area in March 2009. At Southwark Crown Court in September that year, he was convicted of three attempted rapes and kidnapping with intent to commit a sexual offence, and detained in hospital due to his mental condition.
In the first attack, a 16-year-old girl was dragged into an alleyway where OSB forced her to the ground, pulled down her trousers and underwear before a passer-by intervened. Two days later, he attacked a second woman from behind on a street at night, trying to pull down her jogging bottoms. She only escaped after defending herself with a glass bottle, injuring his hand.
Just 20 minutes later, he struck again, lifting another woman off her feet and dragging her into an alleyway before she managed to break free screaming. The Home Office issued a deportation order in February 2017, but what followed was a legal battle involving multiple appeals, judicial reviews, fresh asylum claims and emergency interventions by lawyers.
Despite medical evidence which showed OSB continued to suffer chronic paranoid schizophrenia but repeatedly stopped taking medication — triggering dangerous relapses, he was finally being deported after the Court of Appeal allowed a challenge by the Home Office against a 2024 decision by a first-tier immigration tribunal judge, which had been upheld by an upper tier tribunal. The deportation was made possible after the judges concluded that the consequences of deporting OSB would be too remote and not amount to intense suffering, a key legal threshold
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